ALL IN THE TIMING

by David Ives

JANUARY 29 - FEBRUARY 6

The world according to David Ives is a very odd place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language — and of the audience's capacity for disorientation and delight. Ives's characters plunge into black holes where the simplest desires are hilariously thwarted, chimps are locked in a room and charged with re-creating Hamlet and a con man peddles courses in a dubious "language." At once enchanting and perplexing, incisively intelligent and side-splittingly funny, this collection of six one act plays will have you shaking your head while rolling in the aisles.